Ranking Every NHL Team's Home Jersey for the 2026-27 Season

With a new NHL season on the horizon and preseason games already underway, it's high time we got down to serious business when it comes to fashion. Jersey fashion, that is.

While all teams are adding Hometown Remix jerseys and others are adding various alternates and throwbacks to be unveiled at later dates, the home jerseys, by all accounts, remain unchanged, so we can judge them anew. While some opinions change with time, others are hard to budge, apart from how we feel about things in the moment.

Whether your team has a classic look or something more modern, we do our part to be tough, but fair in judgment of them but with 32 teams to sort through, it's work we take a lot of pride in, just like you all take pride in telling us how wrong we are when you don't like our rankings. So please, feel free to share those thoughts with us!

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When Reebok's EDGE style was unleashed upon fans back in 2007 or so, it brought some of the poorest-looking jerseys in NHL history. Although the Capitals showed off a great new script-based logo, the style of those jerseys was just far too busy, and they've never changed them since, despite how much we beg them to do just that.

One day, we'll get our wish, at least that's our hope.

It's not that we're big-time haters of the Panthers jerseys; it's just that what makes them unique compared to virtually every other team are things we have yet to really warm up to for 10 years now, since they changed to this style at the start of the 2016-2017 season.

The colors and striping are good; the logo is solid enough, but the patches and numbers on the shoulders say "football" more than they do "hockey." Here's to hoping their "Hometown Remix" sweaters bring the heat the way their sky-blue Reverse Retros did in 2022-2023.

We're not sinking the Predators in our rankings because of their glorious golden-yellow color or their extremely awesome Nashville logo on the front. We love both of those immensely. What's got us putting them here this year is how relatively plain the whole of the look is now.

The guitar strings on the numbers are good, and the nods to Music City like that are great, but the whole of the jersey is so simplified it kind of mutes it. "If it's too loud, you're too old," works in music and in hockey jerseys.

There's a lot to love about what's available to the Blue Jackets in terms of designs, and for as bold and brash as they were when they arrived in the NHL, they've done a lot to bring it back to earth with their home and road sets.

Although they're called the Blue Jackets, their home jerseys could use a little less blue and a little more red-and-white striping to liven them up. Maybe it could use a little more cannon, via a shoulder patch or by owning how very Ohio they are, the way they did with their Stadium Series jerseys a couple of years ago. We love you, Columbus, but you're frustrating us.

As we've shown in years past with our rankings, winning a Stanley Cup doesn't help give you a boost in jersey rankings, and the Carolina Hurricanes aren't getting much of a reprieve this year.

We know the 'Canes are in an awkward position with a primary logo that can be difficult to design around and secondary logos that make for great iconography (the storm flags on a hockey stick; Stormy the mascot in a hat and sweater out of the 1950s), but their black home sweaters with the storm flags is about as good as they've got and it's still not enough to give them a lift in the rankings. It's grown on us a little, but when we think of the Hurricanes, we're thinking of them in bright red more than black, and even winning the Cup again can't fix that.

The Lightning are a team capable of doing so much more with their jerseys, and they've done so with their alternates in recent years, but their home set, despite how clean and simple it is, is almost too plain.

We like the Lightning logo just fine, but the design of the jersey itself has borne such a resemblance to the rival Toronto Maple Leafs since they began wearing it in 2011-2012 that it's still mentally difficult to separate the comparison.

Sure, the Lightning have been far more successful with the look and have the Stanley Cups to show for it, but it doesn't make the observation any different. At least the shoulder logos give it a slightly different look and feel.

It may upset some fans to see the Kraken's superb jerseys so early in our rankings, but despite the cool colors and logos, it's a jersey that gets punished because they have a far superior alternate.

The navy-blue home sweater with the seafoam green and light blue stripes, along with that little touch of salmon red, makes us think of the ocean, and the Kraken logo is genuinely very good. The anchor shoulder logo with the outline of the Space Needle is wonderful as well. But this jersey, compared to their black alternate jersey with the green outline and menacing sleeve stripes, is just so much better.

We're not asking for that to become their primary home jersey, but we wouldn't mind hearing that it would be seen more often either.

Ottawa throwing their look back to the franchise's beginnings in the 1990s was so overdue and so necessary to get everyone back on board with them. Their black home sweaters are exact copies of what they wore from 1993 to 1995, and it's a great look.

Throwbacks can sometimes get heat for trying too hard to embrace what once was, but those Senators teams from those years weren't great, and the current team, despite recent drama, is good, and now they look good, too.

It's impressive how success can sometimes change an opinion. In the Wild's case, seeing them win more often in their regular home jerseys can help make it look better.

The dark green jersey with cream and red stripes and the Wild logo crest is genuinely good. It hammers home the fact that the team is centered on nature and the wilderness, and the look is wholly their own. Their gorgeous Minnesota North Stars-colored alternates that everyone clamors for are great on their own (and a bit better than their home jerseys), but the Wild having a very solid home jersey in their own colors is a good thing.

What we love about the Ducks' home jerseys is that their full embrace of the original Mighty Ducks logo is back, making them feel real again. We also love that they're fully ensconced in orange, and for a bold-color jersey in the NHL, that's how it should be.

Anaheim's home uniforms get routinely killed for going so hard on orange, from the helmets to the sweaters to the pants and socks, and yeah, that's definitely a lot of orange. Throw some black pants on that set and you might be really cooking there. But the jersey? That's superb even if the number and letter coloring feels off.

The Stars have had fantastic jerseys since rebranding their look in 2013, and it's such a strong style that they don't need to change it at all. Their "victory green" home jerseys with the logo on the front are superb and all you can ask for from a jersey.

If there's a modern template teams follow for designing a jersey, the Stars followed it to the letter. That's not a bad thing by any means, but after unveiling their modernized 1999 throwback alternate jerseys last season, we know there's more they can do to make things look good on the ice, apart from winning a lot of games.

We haven't held back our enjoyment of the Golden Knights embracing what it means to be a team based in Las Vegas and going full, sparkly gold with their home jerseys. After all, if you're going to be in Vegas, be all about it and they are and that's good.

Now, do we have nitpicks about how the jersey itself is styled? Sure, but they're really minor and were more of an issue when their home jersey was pewter gray and black instead of gold. We love that Vegas tries to do things differently, and a sparkling gold jersey on the Strip is exactly what we want to see.

The Avalanche are in that funny spot where their current sweaters are good, but they're not as good as what they once had.

Colorado did their part to make their jerseys look close to what they had when the franchise moved to Denver in 1995, but those originals were so good right out of the gates that they set a high bar to surpass.

Their current jerseys lean more toward lighter blue and gray to go with the burgundy body. The Avalanche logo stands out proudly, but the different-style sleeves make it unique and not at all a throwback design. It works fine, and it's definitely better than anything from the Reebok era, but it's hard to let go of those old memories of what they had before.

When it comes to our rankings, we're rather unabashed enjoyers of Original Six sweaters. They're classic, they're simple, they're virtually unchanged throughout history, and, as teams are finding out these days, what once was a great look remains one today.

So how do the Maple Leafs end up here in our rankings? It's not because we don't like their blue home sweaters. We love them and how they're iconic. We love the logo, we love blue and white, and we love simplicity. But it's so simple all the same, and they've tinkered with their look enough over time that they've been able to do more interesting things with it, even in smaller ways.

We're eager to see what they do for their centennial to celebrate it, and if their center ice design is a tip-off, we're all about it.

Detroit's home jersey is one of the most iconic in the NHL, and it's been imitated and copied at many levels of hockey. When you've got a logo like the Red Wings' winged wheel, it's really hard to mess that up. Even with all the off-ice drama surrounding the team, it can't take away from how great they look on the ice.

We could note how the jersey has been virtually unchanged since 1937, when they made the numbers totally white on the red sweater, but isn't it incredible that a change like that happened 90 years ago? You don't mess with perfection, although a perfect jersey doesn't always grant you a top-five spot these days.

Throughout the Canucks history, they've had a lot of changes to their jerseys, but their current style with the orca crashing through ice in the shape of the letter "C" with the original stick-in-rink logo on the shoulders is so clean it makes us wish the team wasn't in such a bad way.

Say what you will about the Canucks logo, but it's been their primary for nearly 30 years now (1997) and that's longer than any other logo they've had before it. The blue, green, and white color scheme is great, and the striping is clean. If you can't be good on the ice, you better look good, and the Canucks certainly do.

We'll confess to being somewhat of haters in the past when it came to the Jets' home jerseys, but time has a way of softening opinions and helping us learn to love things, and that's just where we're at.

Winnipeg's home sweater is great. The navy blue, sky blue, and white colors are great, and the sleeve striping is uniquely good. The Jets logo is a nod to both the Canadian Air Force and their ownership (True North), but it looks great. Even the shoulder logos are solid enough, and the fonts for the names and numbers are great.

Sure, it would've been simple enough to use former Jets logos and run with it to make a zillion dollars but doing that for the alternate sweaters was the right move to incorporate that and have their own identity.

When the Kings went full-on retro rebrand last season, it was really hard to argue with their use of the 1990s silver-and-black style and logo as the template. It was such an iconic look during the heyday of Wayne Gretzky in Los Angeles, establishing the Kings as one of the premier franchises in the NHL, and bringing it back full-time made sense, especially given how the team went back to black, silver, and white as their colors in 2011.

Even though the logo is just a tad different from the 90s logo, the idea is the same, and the style of the jersey is just about spot-on for what they had back in the day. It's an iconic look for L.A., one that everyone there and across pop culture can easily identify with, and that goes a long way. Even though the silver has a bit more sparkle than it used to, that's not a bad thing, given they're in Hollywood and all.

If you're not down with the Devils logo, we want to know if you're feeling OK, because that alone is worth it, no matter what style of jersey they want to put it on. Instead, the Devils have largely stuck with a redesign from 1992, when they went from green, red, and white to black, red, and white, and have left it alone for good reason.

The Devils being red and black is fitting, and while the only real changes they've made to their jerseys have been to the striping around the waist (2017 eliminated a white stripe), the appearance is essentially the same, and it's great. If you're going to be the Devils, you better look the part, and they have for decades.

Even though the Islanders will have a new alternate jersey this season, they're leaving the home and road jerseys alone, and thank goodness for that because they're perfect.

The Islanders' blue home sweater is as good and easy to look at as any sweater can be. The orange and white stripes on the sleeves and waist hearken back to their history of winning the Stanley Cup in the 80s and their successes in more recent years as well.

The Isles' iconic logo always needed to shine, and bringing back this classic style was the best way to make it shine. Call it basic if you want to, but you'll have to hear it from angry Long Islanders eager to see the glory days return.

After a full season to soak in the Mammoth's new home jerseys, it's become clear they made some great decisions in putting them together. The new logo stands out proudly on the front, and the team's color scheme since moving to Salt Lake City has been so good for hockey.

The striping on the sleeves and the Utah logos on the shoulders complement the whole look and make it really easy on the eyes. It can be hard for a new team to hammer out a look with such ease, but the Mammoth have done that, and now they've got a playoff team to watch roar around the ice in them, too.

There's an argument to be made that no jersey since the 70s has been so imprinted on the minds of sports fans as the Philadelphia Flyers' orange, black, and white sweaters. When the team went back to the burnt orange color from the 80s last season, and with Rick Tocchet at the helm, everything felt a bit more at home.

Although the new Flyers jerseys are still a throwback to the old days, old being new again works out great when it comes to Philly and hockey. The Flyers logo is among the best and most recognizable in sports and if we're going to see Philly in the playoffs, seeing them looking like this is just how we want it to be: Iconic.

Everyone knows who the Rangers are based on the color of their jersey, and when you've got that kind of recognition, you're doing things right.

The "Blueshirts" home blue sweaters with the white and red stripes are such a clean and hockey-specific look that it's impossible not to appreciate (fans in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and on Long Island excepted). The horizontal spelling of "Rangers" in the red-and-white drop-shadow text, to match the similar number-and-name-style lettering, is gorgeous.

It's hard for Original Six teams to go wrong, and the Rangers haven't gone wrong with this look since 1947. Don't mess with greatness, even if it isn't producing Stanley Cups with regularity.

Although the Sharks didn't throw it all the way back to their 90s jerseys with their rebrand in 2022, they did it in a way that made it modern and just as incredible to look at, and their home teal sweaters are spectacular.

The Sharks logo is among the best in the NHL, and a modernized version of the shark chomping down on a hockey stick is great. Bringing back the shark fin shoulder logos was a brilliant move, and simplifying the color palette by sticking to teal, black, and white (excluding gray) somehow makes it look a little cleaner and even a bit more ominous. Now that they've got Macklin Celebrini to put fear into the rest of the league, the sound of the "Jaws" theme at games ought to be a lot scarier for opponents.

Few jerseys can be truly iconic in a sport and throughout pop culture, but Chicago's home red sweaters accomplish that. Whether it's on the ice with Connor Bedard and Patrick Kane or off it in Wayne's World or National Lampoon's films, it's there, screaming hockey history at you.

A design from a much older time, it's almost certainly past its prime; that said, you'll be hard-pressed to find a jersey more associated with hockey than this one.

When the Bruins tweaked the design of their home and road sweaters last season and decided to make it look as close to their 1980s jerseys as possible, they hit it out of the park.

The Bruins' spoked-B logo is another of the many iconic logos in sports, and giving it the simple, powerful style it had during the 80s and early 90s provided the proper palette for it. A black jersey with gold and white stripes as well as the throwback Bruins logo on the shoulder, it's a real beauty and evokes all the memories of the team's past.

St. Louis' throwback blue jersey teased us when they wore it at the 2017 Winter Classic, showing how great their sweaters looked in the 60s and 70s. When they held onto that jersey as an alternate the following year, we were happy to see it stick around longer. But when they made it their full-time home jersey and, last season, the inspiration to change their road jerseys as well, we were absolutely ecstatic.

The lighter shade of blue as the base for the home jersey is gorgeous, and the way it makes the gold and white stripes on the sleeves and waist look is making us wonder why they didn't make this change ages ago, as they sorted through various designs since the Reebok Edge days. It's another case of a throwback done right and one where bringing it back was 100 percent the right call.

Speaking of throwbacks brought back for a good reason, the Penguins' black and gold jerseys from the 1980s and 90s were always among the best-looking jerseys of all time, and seeing the sweaters that Mario Lemieux and Jaromír Jágr made into a championship look in the 90s, done so again by Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin now, was just too good.

The skating penguin logo is one of the best in hockey history, and the City of Pittsburgh colors of black and yellow, paired with it, make it a "bled into the fabric of the people" kind of thing. That these jerseys were brought back in 2014 and became the team's full-time look a couple of years later made all the sense in the world.

For a time, coincidentally, during a large part of a 15-year playoff drought, the Sabres' jerseys were a bit lost in the desert. They messed around with other logos, brought back the original one but altered the colors, and generally tried to reinvent the wheel. But when the Sabres brought back royal blue and gold as their colors and returned to a jersey design closer to the original style, things changed.

The Sabres' blue home jersey, with the logo on the front and gold and white stripes, is as clean as any in the league. And while other teams may have the same colors, the Sabres' look is hyper-specific to them, and any time they match up against another team with a great look, it's bound to be one of the most pleasing games to watch.

For so long, the Oilers had some of the best and most iconic home and road jerseys in the league. Sure, they had Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier to thank for that, winning Stanley Cups and making Edmonton the city of champions in the 80s, but their blue jersey with the orange and white shoulder yoke and sleeve stripes was synonymous with hockey greatness.

Then, for years after that, the Oilers messed around with the look and colors, trying hard to make something new for their spectacular logo. None of it compared to the original, however, and eventually those glorious 80s sweaters found their way back for Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to shine once again. Every game these jerseys appear in makes them look better.

The foundation that Flames jerseys had established for them in Atlanta in the 70s carried over when they went to Calgary in 1980, and even though they experimented with other styles for a while in the 90s and 2000s, returning to the original style made the Flames whole again.

Their red home sweaters with the yellow and white stripes, along with the iconic flaming "C" logo, are as close to a perfect look as you'll get in sports. With a name like the Flames, you have to think of fire when you look at them, and these jerseys more than do that. It's an intimidating look when they're playing well, and even when they're not, they just look incredible, period.

How good are the Montréal Canadiens red sweaters? They've been essentially unchanged since 1925, and only when the NHL mandated names on the back of jerseys in the 70s did they change substantially. From the iconic logo to the colors to the stripes, this look is hockey.

Franchises across sports hope to have something that is so defiantly their own, like the Habs' red sweater. Yankees' pinstripes, the Dallas Cowboys' white uniforms, and the Boston Celtics' green uniforms are as close to the Canadiens as it gets, but the Canadiens' jersey defines the game itself. They're forever the No. 1 when it comes to style, and everyone else in the NHL is fighting for second place.